This coming week, Claire and I are having to step away completely. We are moving my father into new care, and right now that has to come before everything else. It is heavy. In truth, it is one of the hardest things I have ever had to face. Thank goodness I am not facing it alone. Claire has been my partner for twenty years, and I honestly do not know how I would manage without her beside me. Her love, strength and practical support are carrying me through something I never imagined having to face. For the next week, we will be offline. Our posts will pause, and The Actors Copilot Green Room will be quieter. We need to give our full attention to Dad, the move and each other. The community is not going anywhere, and neither are we. To every Actors Copilot subscriber, Green Room member, follower and supporter: thank you. Your belief in what we are building means more than you probably realise, especially during a week like this. Actors understand that life does not pause for the work. The grief, pressure, fear, love and everything we live through eventually become part of our instrument. We do not have to find meaning in it immediately, but with time, it finds its way into the truth of our work. This is one of those weeks when we have come off the bike. We need to stop, deal with what is in front of us and find our footing again. And we will. This unexpected timing also coincides with important changes behind the scenes. We are moving subscriptions onto a better platform and substantially upgrading The Actors Copilot app, so some subscribers may experience a temporary interruption. Please be assured that no one will lose any access they have paid for. Any time affected will be added back, and I will personally email every subscriber next week. While we are away, please keep each other company in The Actors Copilot Green Room. Nothing would make Claire and me happier than to see conversations continuing, members supporting one another and new actors being warmly welcomed.

Knowing your archetype is not a personality game. It is your casting power. It shapes how you present yourself, how you carry your identity, how you walk into the room before you have said a single word. When you know it, you stop guessing and start choosing. Answer twelve honest questions and the tool shows you yours. Then it opens up a map of how your archetype crosses with every other one, with real performances from the best film and television of the decade, and a clip to watch for each. See how a Hero plays a Villain. How a Caregiver hides a Rebel. The combinations are where great casting lives. Take a few minutes. Find yours. Then walk the crossings and see which performances light you up. Your answers never leave your device. No sign up, no database, nothing saved, nothing seen by anyone. Close the page and they are gone. actorscopilot-discover-your-archetype.netlify.app Prep faster. Go deeper. Perform truthfully. Tracey and Claire

Join us live on Zoom with casting director Anne Fremiot, whose impressive career includes work associated with Perfume, Stillwater, The Serpent Queen and many more. Anne will share what casting directors notice, what makes an actor stand out and what happens behind the scenes of the casting process. You’ll also have the chance to ask her your own questions live on Zoom. I have personally been 'in the room' with Anne and her approach to casting is beyond amazing. Thursday 20 August 7 p.m. BST • 8 p.m. CEST • 11 a.m. PDT Following several requests, we’ve moved our masterclasses one hour later—so please make a note of the new times. We’ll add the Zoom link to the Skool calendar in the next few days for easy access. See you there! We would greatly appreciate you inviting fellow actors to our new community - https://www.skool.com/the-actors-copilot/about Love Tracey and Claire x

The Green Room is where we communicate, exchange ideas and help shape what comes next. These polls are important because we’re not simply building the programme for you, we’re building it with you. We have a stellar "Live from the Cockpit" masterclass lineup planned for the rest of the year, and we’re now looking ahead to the second quarter of next year. With the extraordinary rise of vertical drama, we’d love to know whether this is a subject you would like us to explore. The format is beginning to establish minimum daily rates for actors, creating a potentially valuable new source of income. It is also something you could realistically develop and produce yourselves. We personally know the director behind one of the vertical dramas going viral right now and have the opportunity to invite them to lead a masterclass. Would you be interested in exploring vertical drama as an actor and as a format you could produce?

You asked. We listened. A couple of days ago we ran a poll in the Green Room asking if you wanted to hear about vertical drama. The answer was clear even though we're a small group right now. And we're working hard to grow this platform. The support we're getting from members already means a lot. Keep doing the work. This is for you. A top vertical drama director who is also an Emmy-nominated casting director for "One Piece," the Netflix hit. Her vertical series is going viral as we post this. Maybe you have guessed who? But what I can tell you. She's the main reason I came back to doing what I love best. When we asked if she'd join next year's roster, the answer was immediate. "Make it this year. Here's why. Actors need to know about this format now, not next year. Vertical drama is real work for actors. It generates proper income. And most actors know very little about it." She joins us in October. Full announcement coming in September. You will not want to miss this one. Tracey and Claire